Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 7
This is a list of selected July 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ambulances at Russell Square, London, after the 7 July 2005 bombings
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| {{<!--If July 5 was a Saturday-->#ifeq: 6 | {{#time:N|5 July {{CURRENTYEAR}}}} |Tynwald Day (Isle of Man, 2024);}} | needs more footnotes |
| Ivan Kupala Day in Russia and Ukraine | no footnotes |
| 1575 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: In the last major battle between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish forces defeated English troops at Carter Bar near Redesdale. | No inline refs. |
| 1585 – The Treaty of Nemours was first signed, forcing Henry III of France to give in to the demands of the Catholic League and revoking all edicts granting concessions to the Huguenots. | refimprove |
| 1807 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon signed the first agreement of the Treaties of Tilsit, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition. | refimprove |
| 1846 – Mexican-American War: American forces led by Commodore John D. Sloat occupied Monterey, beginning the annexation of California. | refimprove |
| 1937 – The Imperial Japanese Army engaged the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army on Beijing's Marco Polo Bridge, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1798 – The Quasi-War, an undeclared war fought entirely at sea, began after the United States rescinded their treaties with France.
- 1928 – The Chillicothe Baking Company in Chillicothe, Missouri, US, first produced sliced bread, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped", which then led to the popular phrase "the greatest thing since sliced bread".
- 2007 – Pope Benedict XVI issued the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass.
July 7: Independence Day in the Solomon Islands (1978); Tanabata in Japan
- 1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began, fueled by rumors that they were encouraging miscegenation.
- 1911 – The United States, United Kingdom, Japan, and Russia signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife conservation issues.
- 1963 – The police of Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest during the Buddhist crisis.
- 1983 – After writing a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith visited the Soviet Union as Andropov's personal guest, becoming known as "America's Youngest Ambassador".
- 1994 – Troops from the former North Yemen captured Aden, ending the Yemeni civil war.
- 2005 – Suicide bombers killed 52 people in a series of four explosions on London's public transport system (victims trapped in train pictured).